Pontellidae
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Pontellidae is a copepod family in the order Calanoida
, containing the following genera:
Calanoida
Calanoida is an order of copepods, a kind of zooplankton. They include around 40 families with about 1800 species of both marine and freshwater copepods. Calanoid copepods are dominant in the plankton in many parts of the world's oceans, making up 55%–95% of plankton samples...
, containing the following genera:
- Anomalocera Templeton, 1837
- Calanopia Dana, 1852
- Epilabidocera C. B. Wilson, 1932
- Isocope Brady, 1915
- Ivellopsis Claus, 1893
- Labidocera Lubbock, 1853
- PontellaPontellaPontella is a marine copepod genus in the family Pontellidae. It is an organism that bears three lenses in the eye. The outer has a parabolic surface, countering the effects of spherical aberration while allowing a sharp image to be formed....
Dana, 1846 - Pontellina Dana, 1852
- Pontellopsis Brady, 1883